Labor Supply and Human Capital Formation

(3-0) Cr. 3. Alt. S., offered 2003. Prereq: 501 or 601.  Labor supply decisions and empirical analysis for agricultural operators and other self-employed and wage-earning households; multiple job holding; resource allocation in productive households; human capital formation by households, firms, and public institutions, which includes schooling, on-the-job training, migration, health, research, raising of children, and implications for household income and welfare; applications to problems in rural areas of developing and developed countries.

 

Course Information

Instructor:
Wallace Huffman
382A Heady Hall, 294-6359
whuffman@iastate.edu

Office Hours:
T, Th, Fri 1-2 and by appointment

Class meeting:
MWF 2:00, Food Science 2319

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